Recent Acquisitions: Select Photographic Works

Roni Horn was born in New York in 1955. She earned her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and her MFA from Yale University. Horn has worked with sculpture, photography, drawing, literature, and installations throughout her career, appearing in numerous exhibitions. Much of her work centers around concepts of fluid identity, perception, repetition, and mirroring. Inspired by her time living in and traveling around Iceland, Horn’s work tends to feature abstractions of nature and the environment. In addition, she often allows her art to interact with its surroundings and its audience, and vice versa. Some of her notable work includes a series of glass sculptures that utilize the shifting light from their environment to reflect on mutable identity, as well as drawings and other mediums that incorporate text, be it streams of consciousness or Emily Dickenson poems. Her photography and other works are, according to Horn, a sort of self-portrait of the artist, in spite of their abstract and figure-less forms.